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goldeneyedgirl · 8 months

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okay, so, Memento Question, just for you to remember that people actually appreciate that fic: in that version, in which Alice lives (or is changed by Jasper), she lives her life differently? Or all the visions are the still the same as the version where she dies and something, maybe Jasper, just changed in the last minute? Idk if answering this would count as a spoiler tho

Awww, Anon, thank you so much.

For the part of Memento Vivere where Alice lives, everything is the same until about halfway through Memento Mori, and then Jasper makes a Decision and that's essentially where the story changes - this is essentially the first scene of where the story diverges.

It's very much reinforcing that Alice did nothing wrong, and that one person making a decision to reach out to her in some way would have changed her fate - whether that was her father or stepmother, Carlisle as her doctor, a classmate etc. (The whole situation is really just a metaphor for how often depressed teenagers are left to slip through the cracks and are too often failed by the people - the adults - around them.)

Alice would always be a temptation to Jasper, but she only became a plausible target for him because she was so isolated and solitary.

But I digress.

For the part where Jasper changes her, everything is the same, Alice just wakes up buried in the forest and that's essentially where we start. And that's when we get into Consequences and Fate and Found Family <3

I can't say anything about visions without getting into spoiler territory, but obviously Alice with a support system, or Alice with a more evolved gift is going to look a little different than the very miserable young girl in Memento Mori who spent a lot of time worrying about her inevitable death.

Anyway, anon, have a sample of Jasper's POV from Memento Mori! I don't think I've posted it before, but if I have... enjoy it again?

Carlisle is home quickly

“Jasper killed Alice Brandon.”

The words hit Carlisle like I’ve stabbed him. Four plunges of the knife. I see the news sink in, and I can see him go rigid, to resist whatever reaction he wants to have. He swallows hard and nods once.

“You cleaned up?” he asks, his voice hoarse, and his words directed to Edward.

“Yes. She won’t be found,” Edward affirms. He’s right; her grave is deep in the Olympic National Park, where only the most experience of climbers could get to easily. No hunters would go there, no police dogs could get to the scent. She’ll never be found.

I don’t need Edward’s gift to know that Carlisle is remembering other accidents we’ve had to clean up; the wet, meaty sound as we pulled off limbs to simulate an animal attack; slicing deeply into flesh to mimic ripping; impromptu pyres, and rocks filling the pockets of horror-stricken corpses.

“What do we do now?” Esme asks. I don’t need to look up at them all. Flavours of shock, grief, frustration, rage, and pity rush to meet me. “We… we can’t leave, not without Bella.”

Rosalie huffs, Edward growls, and Carlisle is just staring off into space.

“We’ve broken the Treaty,” Carlisle murmured. “We must leave.”

“We don’t have to go anywhere.” Our gazes swing to meet Emmett, who looks thoughtful. “Everyone in school knew she had problems. They’ll say she ran away or something. We graduate in a few months.”

“Jasper can’t leave the house like that,” Rosalie says waspishly, and it's hard to comprehend that my eyes are fucking luminous with her blood.

“Bella doesn’t graduate until next summer,” Edward says in a dark voice.

“I will contact the school, and tell them Jasper is ill,” Carlisle says. “But… I am not comfortable with this plan. If the pack finds out, they have the right to attack us at any interval…”

“So, we prepare,” Esme says firmly. “We hunt in groups. We stay close to the house. If we have to separate, we regroup at the house in Alaska. We start preparing now, so that once graduation is over with, we can leave immediately. As for Bella, if we are forced to leave, we keep in contact and reunite with her once she’s graduated.”

//

It takes a week for Alice to be noticed as missing. Edward reports that the police were told three and a half days after I… after, but it takes a whole week for the other students to notice her absence, for the truth to get out.

Missing.

Some precocious sophomore sets up an odd shrine to her on a noticeboard - her pale face peering out from a photocopy of her school I.D. picture. A few paper flowers and cut out pictures of candles.

And this is the closest Alice Brandon will ever get to a funeral.

#anon #my fic: memento mori #my fic: memento vivere #there is suffering #and then there is romance

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animentality · 4 months

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#twitter #writing #writerscommunity #writers on tumblr #romance

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rookthebird · 6 months

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"redemption arcs are toxic, you shouldn't try to fix someone!"

actually it is so important to me that being in community and experiencing human connection can save people. thanks

#reylo #snowbaird #redemption arc #romance genre #romance writer

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ceevee5 · 7 months

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#lgbt #film #brokeback mountain #summer romance #italy

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becuzmdsaidineededpersonality · 5 months

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#femslash #f/f fanfic #f/f romance #f/f ship #archive of our own #ao3 #ao3 fanfic #ao3 tags #fanfiction #fanfic #fanart #destiel meme news

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poetryforall · 2 months

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-Rumi

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jayvespertine · 2 months

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– Audrey Hepburn

#literature #quotes #dark academia #light academia #poetry #romance #romantic academia #poem #memes #love quotes

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nova-lunosi · 2 months

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@fabcreature

(this is available on my RedBubble)

#gerard way #my chemical romance #kermit the frog #rainbow connection #my art #nova lunosi

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ineed-to-sleep · 7 months

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This mans got me in a chokehold ahahahaaa 🫠

don't tell him I said that

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #astarion #astarion bg3 #astarion ancunin #sleepyscribble #yk in hindsight it was probably a mistake to romance him in my first run #How am I supposed to romance other ppl in the next ones now 🫠

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emotionalwords · 3 months

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dailyflicks · 18 days

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#you know it's serious when they pull that face

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fabcreature · 11 months

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when gerard way sings "the broken, the beaten, and the damned" and when kermit the frog sings "the lovers, the dreamers, and me" they're talking about the same people btw

#muppets #the muppets #mcr #my chemical romance #kermit the frog #eg posts

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redysetdare · 4 months

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Sometimes...characters being in a romantic relationship is worse.

#text #sometimes it's the most boring way to have characters interact #sometimes it's worse than the chemistry they have as literally any other kind of relationship #sometimes their platonic dynamic is better #sometimes their hostile dynamic is better #sometimes their dynamic is better if it's anything other than romance #because maybe them falling into generic romance is how you ruin their characters.#aro #aromantic #aroace #i only tag these because it feels relevant to why i feel this way

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